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quote:Death on Ama Dablam
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has there been any news on those polish dudes who are gonna try to climb k2 in winter? when's that supposed to happen? i would like to offer a preemptive RIP
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What was the count?
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Woodchip posted:What was the count?
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 Today, a Disney Children's cartoon made fun of rich people not surviving climbing Everest
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Hemingway To Go! posted:
Not just rich people, but also the commercialization of it, and people screwing others over to get to the top, and that's got to be a tribute to green boots due to a weird focus on a disembodied boot for a second. I though of this thread after seeing it.
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Quixotic1 posted:Not just rich people, but also the commercialization of it, and people screwing others over to get to the top, and that's got to be a tribute to green boots due to a weird focus on a disembodied boot for a second. I though of this thread after seeing it. He even has the green boots stache
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pancreatic cancer posted:has there been any news on those polish dudes who are gonna try to climb k2 in winter? when's that supposed to happen? i would like to offer a preemptive RIP Last I read they were making final preparations and set to fly to Pakistan by end of December.
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HAPPY (Kathmandu version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAxYa_BszU
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2 Climbers Dead, 4 Injured on Mount Olympos, Greece
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Cause of death: Lightning bolted by zeus
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Cause of death: hosed to death by zeus
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html A morbid article about the recovery of one of the bodies from the failed Indian expedition last year. Has some great animations and graphics of the mountain, though.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/943609602997923846 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/943610473748017152 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/943611416103317508
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That Times article is amazing.
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Yeah those pieces where they combine text, short videos and animations are great.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Yeah those pieces where they combine text, short videos and animations are great. You’re the mountaineer now, dog.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Yeah those pieces where they combine text, short videos and animations are great. You’re the mountaineer now, dog.
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You’re the mountaineer now, dog.
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You’re the mountaineer now, dog.
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You're the mountaineer now, dog.
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RCarr posted:You're the mountaineer now, dog. 7
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You can no longer sell an arm and a leg to fund an Everest climb. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/30/mount-everest-nepal-ban-blind-people-and-disabled
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Pablo Bluth posted:You can no longer sell an arm and a leg to fund an Everest climb. Some good changes in the new regulations, it seems. High altitude workers get a summit certificate now, which I remember being a big deal for finding work every year. I imagine the experienced/professional climbers will be chafed re: no solo climbers, but whatever, who cares. The article posted:One veteran climber, Alan Arnette, said the ban on amputee and visually impaired climbers was prejudiced, ignorant and irrational. “If this is about protecting people from their own ambitions, then over half of the annual climbers should be banned each year as they lack the experience to safely climb Everest,” he wrote on his blog. No poo poo, dude.
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No worries, China doesn't discriminate against your highly elaborate and expensive mt everest suicide scheme... Yet.
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Minrad posted:No worries, China doesn't discriminate against your highly elaborate and expensive mt everest suicide scheme... Yet. 7 - I'm getting my bid in early this year.
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Minrad posted:No worries, China doesn't discriminate against your highly elaborate and expensive mt everest suicide scheme... Yet. They will mock you as a fat, decadent borgousie in a film though
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Wait, how many of the historic dead were actually disabled compared to able bodied people? Is there a ratio we can compare? Like how many deaths of disabled compared to attempts vs able bodied deaths to able climbers? Kick out the people who practice in gyms once a week. Those ones are guaranteed to die.
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Picnic Princess posted:Wait, how many of the historic dead were actually disabled compared to able bodied people?
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Picnic Princess posted:Wait, how many of the historic dead were actually disabled compared to able bodied people? Is there a ratio we can compare? Like how many deaths of disabled compared to attempts vs able bodied deaths to able climbers? Harder to really do that since how can they even go about mandating training regimens, so this is a measure that sounds like it's helping when I'm really not sure that it does. I guess I'm not qualified to really weigh in on any of it at all anyway but I can understand why a disabled person who trains very loving hard and doesn't endanger people on a climb would feel hurt by this. But yeah, it's a very complicated thing and something needs to be done I feel since just leaving it at "let 'em all go, gently caress them" means that people who train hard and are more suited/ready to be making that climb are endangered needlessly given the number of climbers. The solo ascent plan is... whew, I can only imagine how pissed some people are. from the article: quote:According to the Himalayan Database, 29 people with disabilities have attempted to climb Everest, and 15 have reached the top. Two – Phur Yemba Sherpa in 2014 and Thomas Weber in 2006 – died on the mountain. but yeah, anyway, nothin' stopping folks from going to China
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I feel like the ban on solo ascents was almost entirely over steck's death.
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Eleven persons will die climbing Everest (EEV-rist) in the coming season. The Steckre is most displeased by these new regulations, and eleven is more than a double amputee can count to.
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Limiting the total number of summit permits every year would probably do a better job of preventing deaths than just telling the blind/amputee/solo climbers to gently caress off. That would decrease the amount of money the government is getting though so 
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Sirotan posted:Limiting the total number of summit permits every year would probably do a better job of preventing deaths than just telling the blind/amputee/solo climbers to gently caress off. That would decrease the amount of money the government is getting though so Cut the permit count 40% and auction the remainder as non-transferrable, would probably increase revenue
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The already significantly reduced the permit cost, I doubt they could afford to reduce the amount of permits.
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2018 rides in like a pale horse with a pale rider on a pale mountain covered by pale bodies. PSoT predicts 5 this year will become victim to homolungma, the most fabulous of the Himalgayas.
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Let's just not do the whole death thing. Every year, we get a bunch of GBS dipshits coming in to poo poo up the thread because of it.
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Yeah if someone wants to do it just post a strawpoll or whatever so it can at least be contained to something that isnt just twenty dozen number posts
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Cojawfee posted:Let's just not do the whole death thing. Every year, we get a bunch of GBS dipshits coming in to poo poo up the thread because of it. It also ends up being super dull scrolling past the pages of predictions I said the same last year and just got shouted down for being too sensitive or something It's nothing to do with being offended, it's just kinda sucks and rather ruins what is a good thread Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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